Thomas Busching, managing partner of Squire Sanders’ Frankfurt office, holds dual qualifications as a lawyer and certified tax consultant. His practice includes taxation, tax‑driven legal matters and transactional work. He advises clients on international and Germany-based tax structuring, inbound and outbound foreign direct investments, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate law. He has worked in Asia for several years and heads the Frankfurt office’s China/Asia desk. Thomas is a member of the German Institution of Arbitration and is one of the few dually qualified arbitrators.

Thomas is co-author of the German Handbook of International Corporation Law; author of “Low Taxes on German Real Property Investments,” published in Property Magazine International; and a regular contributor to Internationales Steuerrecht, an international tax journal in Germany. He has also spoken on tax issues for most of his professional career.

Additional recent publications in which Thomas has contributed include articles in the International Tax Review, International Financial Law Review’s 2007 Guide to Real Estate, AFIRE News, Property Finance Europe, Practical Law Company Quarterly, Property Law Journal, Journal of Retail & Leisure Property, CiJ Journal and Investment & Real Estate Development. He is a member of the Frankfurt sections of the German Bar Association and the German Tax Consultants Association.

Reprezentatywne doświadczenie

• Advising in the US$750 million buyout and restructuring of a joint venture of a Russia-based gas company.
• Advising in the acquisition of a company holding a large residential property portfolio by a US-based hedge fund valued at more than US$1 billion.
• Providing counsel as first foreign legal adviser to the administration of Russia’s president on amendments to the Russian Tax Code.
• Advising in the acquisition of various Germany-based machinery companies by China-based competitors.
• Providing counsel in the tax structuring and acquisition of a number of properties in Germany for international private equity/family offices.
• Advising in the German tax audit of a Russia-based oil company in a €66 million tax dispute.